KARACHI: Unidentified assailants stormed into a house in Manghopir and shot dead an infant girl on Saturday, police said.

They said that around three to four armed men entered the house near Garam Chashma in Manghopir at 3.30am and opened fire on people living there.

As a result, a bullet hit an around nine-month-old girl, Khadijah Mehmood, and she died. The assailants managed to escape.

Area SHO Irfan Asif said that the victim’s family originally hailed from Qambar district.

The officer said that a girl had allegedly escaped from Qambar and the attackers suspected that she had taken shelter at the house of the infant’s father, Mehmood.

The relatives told the police that they would lodge an FIR after the burial.

Labourer shot dead in Shah Latif

A man was shot dead in Shah Latif Town late on Friday night, according to police.

They added that Gul Bahar, 32, after meeting his friends was on his way home when two suspects apparently chased and attacked him near Suleman Masjid in Sector 17-C.

He sustained critical bullet wounds and was transported to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, where doctors pronounced him dead on arrival.

Area SHO Gul Baig said the victim originally hailed from Shikarpur and was a labourer.

The police suspected some personal enmity as the likely motive for the murder.

His relatives told the police that they would get an FIR registered after his burial in his native town.

Published in Dawn, April 14th, 2019